Nova Vocal Ensemble Call for Scores Results

The following pieces have been chosen from Nova Vocal Ensemble's summer 2014 call for scores. I received an almost overwhelming number of music from exceptionally talented composers, and I want to thank everyone for contributing to the call! Here are the results:

Lessons and Carols (Dec. 14, 2014 at Christ the King Church, Hollywood, CA):

We Three Kings arranged by Steven Griffin

How Sweet the Sound (June 7, 2015):

America the Beautiful arranged by Frank LaRocca

Idumea arranged by Jefferson DeMarco

Wayfaring Stranger arranged by Stephen Caracciolo

How Can I Keep from Singing arranged by Sheena Phillips

What I Have Done by Timothy Takach

Two interesting choral pieces really caught my eye but didn't fit quite neatly into the above concerts, which all focus on pre-existing melodies used in unique ways. Therefore, these pieces will be sung by the choir at the first concert of our recital series, which was originally conceived to be dedicated to solo works only. These to works used newly composed original Hebrew and Gregorian chants, respectively. They are:

Psalm of Praise by Joshua Fishbein

Burning Chariots by Lansing McLoskey

These pieces will be performed on March 8, 2015.

In addition, Nova is proud to announce Dale Trumbore as composer-in-residence for the season. She will be writing works for Nova's three main concerts.

Thank you for participating in Nova's call for scores. We will hold a call every summer before the start of each new season. If you wish to submit a score for future seasons, please visit our website for more details:

We are still taking solo vocal scores, piano scores, violin scores, or combinations of the three for our recital series. If you wish to send scores for the recitals, please send your scores to novavocalensemble@gmail.com.